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Installed New CD-R Drive...Now DVD Drive Wont Work!

WhoDoYouThink

Posted 15 December 2005 - 09:52 PM

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Last week I took out a bad, old CD-RW drive and put a new one in.
Works great!

Bad news is my DVD drive was working fine before this new CD-RW install.
DVD will play through DVD Media Player Classic but not with RealPlayer or Windows Media. DVD's used to play just fine with other players, but now...
only Media Player Classic.

Sounds like a drive issue, but why would my DVD drivers be changed when I didnt mess with the DVD drive?

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lionelhutz5

Posted 16 December 2005 - 08:33 AM

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When you installed the new drive, did you install any software with it that may have had DVD player software on it? I think that computers like only one codec on at a time, and the same was the case with me and Windows Media Player. (I was able to play DVD's on WMP, but when I installed the next drive, I could only use PowerDVD.)

WhoDoYouThink

Posted 16 December 2005 - 12:43 PM

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Okay...

Just set the newly installed CD-RW drive jumper settings to "CS".
The old DVD drive was not changed. It is set to "CS", as well.

Again...the DVD plays fine with Media Classic but a "copyright protection" error pops up with Real Player and Windows Media Player. This just started happening when I installed the new CD-RW drive last week.

lionelhutz5

Posted 16 December 2005 - 01:16 PM

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That's the same message I got when I installed my new drive. Do you have the software that came with your DVD drive - it should have DVD software on it which play the DVD for you. (It's better quality than Windows Media Player anyway.)

If you do not have the software, I do know of a site that has free DVD player software: